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Old 24-08-2015, 06:07
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Ashokan Farewell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZASM8OX7s
It was used as the theme tune to a very lengthy and detailed documentary mini-series about the American Civil War. Although it sounds as if it dates from that period, it is in fact a modern composition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokan_Farewell
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Old 24-08-2015, 13:07
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Everything Has Changed - Taylor Swift

Such memories
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Old 24-08-2015, 17:06
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A song that makes me weep a song by the rolling stones "wild horses" being butchered by susan boyle.
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Old 24-08-2015, 18:25
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Everytime - Britney Spears
Lucky - Britney Spears
Lemon Tree - The Seekers (always used to cry at this one as a kid)
Little Dreamer - Christina Aguilera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhK9XghVw8g
The Way Old Friends Do - ABBA
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Old 25-08-2015, 15:29
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Here are my main ones.

The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles.

Nothing Rhymed by Gilbert O'Sullivan

My Way by Sinatra.

Just Like A Woman by Bob Dylan.

Lots of songs from Musicals ie Somewhere from West Side Story.

I'm just a big softie really.

The above post has reminded me of I'll Never Find Another You by the Seekers. It breaks my heart as it reminds me of my ex Husband and everything we had when things were good between us.

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Old 26-08-2015, 18:52
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A song that makes me weep a song by the rolling stones "wild horses" being butchered by susan boyle.
How it should be covered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyCkSOF1pc
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Old 26-08-2015, 19:01
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A lament for a sadly missed old lady with a rusty bottom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piSDbBgKYpg
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Old 27-08-2015, 14:32
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Rag Doll by Franki Valli & The Four Seasons

A Lovers' Concerto by The Toys

Always make my cry for their sheer uplifting beauty.
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Old 28-08-2015, 12:57
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Love Will Tear Us Apart

Saw Peter Hook perform it recently at a festival, and I filled up instantly.
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Old 28-08-2015, 13:56
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Susie Suh x Robot Koch - Here With Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzR8BCmV9Ew

I'd never heard of either artist and would never have came across it had it not been for my friend sending me it. Such an emotional haunting track
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Old 30-08-2015, 18:50
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Judith Durham and the Seekers - The Carnival is Over.

Such a beautiful voice.
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Old 30-08-2015, 19:05
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Me and Bobby McGee (recorded by Janis Joplin and many others) - "I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday"
Little Blonde Plaits (Chris Rea) - "Of my life's loves and fascinations, the only one who left me wanting more"
MacArthur Park (Richard Harris) - "After all the loves of my live, I'll be thinking of you, and wondering why"
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Old 30-08-2015, 19:38
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This.

I listened to this sitting downstairs whilst my daughter was upstairs asleep on her last night at home with me before she left home to move in with her boyfriend.

I can't listen to it anymore.

Also Angel, Sarah McLachlan.
The song was inspired by Agnetha's daughter
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Old 31-08-2015, 01:19
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Here are my main ones.

The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles.

Nothing Rhymed by Gilbert O'Sullivan

My Way by Sinatra.

Just Like A Woman by Bob Dylan.

Lots of songs from Musicals ie Somewhere from West Side Story.

I'm just a big softie really.

The above post has reminded me of I'll Never Find Another You by the Seekers. It breaks my heart as it reminds me of my ex Husband and everything we had when things were good between us.
I love all those songs (BIB) Especially with INFAY it celebrates the joy of a spouses' love or closeness, I guess.
The way Sinatra performed My Way as a performer's last hurrah (at the time) was just so good and fitting Beautiful song and a legendary singer/entertainer
Somewhere is just so beautiful, I wish I had someone to sing it with, its a song of longing (imo)
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Old 31-08-2015, 02:10
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A song that makes me weep a song by the rolling stones "wild horses" being butchered by susan boyle.
Woeful wasn't it? Still, I'm sure Mick was crying all the way to the bank.

God Only Knows by The Beach Boys and Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel may be on the list for me.
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Old 31-08-2015, 07:57
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So many but if these songs catch me in a certain mood it'd be...

My Immortal by Evanescence
Explosions by Ellie Goulding
Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt
If You're Not the One by Daniel Bedingfield.
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Old 31-08-2015, 08:43
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Judy Garland's version of Ol Man River.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv_Ryrj6x4g
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Old 31-08-2015, 08:49
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Yes, same here, it's so cheesy.

Also Bette Midler - the wind beneath my wings, I cried bucket fulls when I watched the film.
a couple more weepies from Bette

hello in there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KchO6_4i0hg
the rose
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Old 31-08-2015, 23:12
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This makes me weep because of it's sheer brilliance
And this one because of it's sheer heartbreak
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Old 31-08-2015, 23:26
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I have loads. I cry at songs all the time.

Prettiest eyes and old red eyes is back the beautiful south.
Sunshine on leith. The proclaimers
A rainy night in Soho and fairytale of new York. The pogues
Trouble loves me. Morrissey

And many more.
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Old 01-09-2015, 00:07
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The acoustic version of Local Boy In The Photograph by the Stereophonics. Such a beautiful song. It always makes me think of a friend who died 15 years ago. He's gone but will truly never be forgotten. The whole song is sad but the last line "He's gone away" really gets to me. I think many of us probably know a local boy in the photograph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpW5pAq71c
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Old 01-09-2015, 10:56
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Oh yes, definitely agree with this. Judy Garland was a goddess, she could deliver a song like no-one else can. These make me weep too:

As Long As He Needs Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT0ms9UdxcE
Friendly Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WRmTFmaJw

a couple more weepies from Bette

hello in there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KchO6_4i0hg
the rose
I love The Rose but I'd never heard Hello In There - and it's just made me weep too. And though I really like Bette, I prefer the original of Wind Beneath My wings by Lee Greenwood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgGNyYJ9tn8

Edit: Hello In There reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTIbX6Cm9JE

Winter Shines by Chris While and Julie Matthews (with the wonderful Chris Leslie on violin). In the CD sleeve notes it says that Chris W wrote it about her ageing mother who was becoming frail and had to go into a care home for a short period of respite care. When Chris went to pick her up, she was sitting with her handbag on her knee waiting to come home, her biggest fear being that she would have to spend her last days in a rest home. Chris's voice is gorgeous, one of my favourite female voices ever.
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Old 01-09-2015, 17:57
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The acoustic version of Local Boy In The Photograph by the Stereophonics. Such a beautiful song. It always makes me think of a friend who died 15 years ago. He's gone but will truly never be forgotten. The whole song is sad but the last line "He's gone away" really gets to me. I think many of us probably know a local boy in the photograph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpW5pAq71c

Great version!

I love the song and agree re your comment. I'm in my 50s now and still remember a couple of people who passed far too young.
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Old 01-09-2015, 17:59
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I love all those songs (BIB) Especially with INFAY it celebrates the joy of a spouses' love or closeness, I guess.
The way Sinatra performed My Way as a performer's last hurrah (at the time) was just so good and fitting Beautiful song and a legendary singer/entertainer
Somewhere is just so beautiful, I wish I had someone to sing it with, its a song of longing (imo)
Agreed.

Re My Way. Its like a swan song in many ways. I always say I want it at my funeral but my kids always pull a face. Ha ha. I just find the song so incredibly moving and can relate to it so much.
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Old 01-09-2015, 20:26
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You're the best thing that ever happened to me - Glad and the Pips

Just ask the lonely - 4 Tops

I never dreamed you'd leave in Summer - Stevie Wonder

2nd Symphony - Rachmaninov

Out of Africa - John Barry
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